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No. 70I,642. Patented June 3, I902.

W. STEPHENSON;

SEEDER.

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UNITED STA i, MINNESOTA.

WlLLlAM STEPHENSON, OF ST. LOUlS PAB'L S EED'E'R SPEGIFIGATION fibrming part of Letters Bate No. 701,642, dated. June 3, 1902. AppYmat'mn en November 9,1961. fierm 0.813383. (No moilel.) Z whom it may concern.- eotter-pin 11 prevents disengagement oi the L1 BENSON, f1 a'x swivel, an spring on compresse by d dmove- 55 ofi which 15 common fianle T 0 col Be it known than, W

a citizen 0i theDom'n'xon i nis I means for changing the angle of said spindles with respect to said frame, for the purpose specified.

10. In a seeder, the combination, with a wheel-hub having a gear, of a feed-shaft pro-' vided with a gear and located above said wheel-hub gear, an oil-tube, a lever provided with a sleeve loosely mountedon the hub of said feed-gear and having ahole communicating with said oil-tube, and an idle gear carried by said lever and adapted to engage said wheel-hub gear and said feed-gear.

11. The combination, in a seeder, of the bracket 13 provided with an oil-tube 31', a

\ hubs, a feed-shaft above said driving-wheel, a feedgear having a hub slidable on said shaft, a lever provided with a sleeve loosely mounted on said hub, an idle gear slidably supported on said lever and adapted to engage said driving-gear and said feed-gear, and a guard 32 provided over saidfeed and idle gears and between them and said wheel and limiting their outward sliding movement,substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

13. The combination, with an axle-spindle, of the wheel-hub provided with a gear, a feedshaft also having a gear,'a lever loosely mount ed on said feed-shaft, a gear mounted on said lever and adapted to engage said axle and said feed-shaft gear, a rock=shaft, and a yielding connection provided between said lever and said rock-shaft.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 5 hand this 28th day of October, 1901.

' WILLIAM STEPHENSON. In presenceof- RICHARD PAUL, M. C. NOONAN. 

